Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1161 Mountain Road and Waterway

  The rain in the mountains is always unpredictable, and it will stop for a while.

Captain Sun staggered to his feet, groped in the dark, put on the Taoist robe that had just been issued some time ago, and pushed aside the leg of a soldier lying in front of him with one foot, making more or less an open space, Go outside the hut...

  The soldier didn't realize it, as if he was still eating delicious food in his sleep, he pouted, muttered something, and continued to sleep soundly.

   "This bastard..."

  Sun Dui couldn't help touching his belly, and found that he didn't feel the flustered feeling of waking up from hunger in the middle of the night, and only the sinking belly reminded him that it was time to do something, so he couldn't help but smiled comfortably.

  At dusk, guests came to the military village.

  Looking at the style of the gentry, and then looking at the big-armed guards following the gentry, Captain Sun almost gave up immediately. He sent someone to inform the old Taoist in the back mountain while greeting with a smiley face.

   Sure enough, it was the Li family from Guanzhong who came, and he was an official of Jingzhao with six hundred shi!

When he saw Mrs. Li take out the black ribbon, the old man who was usually high on the top and wished to talk and watch people use his nostrils all made a wrinkled smile, and it was sticky up, not to mention Team Sun led the way around him. The single-chasing officials I have seen are nothing more than pawns of the county and township officials in Erbaishi, and almost all of them are a little at a loss.

  The style of this gentry boy in Guanzhong is different.

The dilapidated thatched huts in the army village are naturally not attractive, and even the old-fashioned wooden houses that are hospitable to them are obviously disliked, so they found a high ground in the mountain behind the army village, and surrounded it with oilcloth and curtains twice. A few square "cloth rooms" were built!

  In the Han Dynasty, cloth, like grain, belonged to hard currency, and they could be directly exchanged for money or items. Therefore, in the eyes of Captain Sun and his subordinates, this kind of behavior is no different from seeing Brother Hao wear money directly on his body in later generations...

   Not only that, but the team including Captain Sun and others also got three wide and long strips of bacon and a whole bag of corn! The fragrant corn porridge, together with a slice of bacon with crystal clear fat, made everyone want to eat the wooden bowl together.

   Not only that, the Li family’s disciples from Guanzhong also said that there are clansmen who are coming here later, and asked the old Taoist and Team Sun to lead the good students to prepare some firewood and hot water. Naturally, there are other thanks.

  Old Daoist and Team Sun naturally agreed without hesitation.

  Looking at the posture of this Li family member, Team Sun is already stunned. It turns out that he is only the head of the family. So when the real head of the family arrives, I don't know what kind of prestige it will be?

Although Mrs. Li said that there will be corn and wheat noodles as a thank-you gift, but the people in the military village who haven’t seen serious food and grass for a long time are still pouring water into the cauldron for cooking corn porridge three times. After drinking it, he touched his swollen belly contentedly, and wandered back to the hut, discussing the manners of the Guanzhong nobles excitedly, chattering for more than half an hour, before falling asleep one after another.

   Captain Sun was a bit older after all, and he did drink two extra bowls of corn porridge, one thick and the other watery. In the middle of the night, he couldn't hold back anymore, so he lifted the straw curtain and left the hut.

  The rain is not heavy, it is fine and hairy.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, it floated onto his face. Dui Sun snorted, then took two steps towards the side of the hut, unfastened his belt, and looked up at the place surrounded by the curtain not far away. at a glance...

   But at this glance, Captain Sun didn't see any movement in the curtain over there, but suddenly saw a strong man's face appearing in the rain and fog!

This brawny man seemed familiar, like the guard of the Li clan of the Guanzhong gentry, but he was wearing two armors, neatly draped, and holding a short straight blade in his hand. All of them stood up in an instant!

  The strong man glanced up and down, and seemed to be smiling, so he sent the short straight blade straight forward, and it sank into Captain Sun's chest...

Captain Sun opened his mouth wide, and before he could utter a miserable howl, he was snatched up by the strong man, covered his mouth tightly, and could only make a little "hehe" sound, and then felt The cold front of the short straight blade gradually froze the whole body, and slowly lost strength, even when he urinated and flowed down the heel of his leg, he couldn't feel any temperature.

As the blood gushed out, Sun Dui led his whole body's strength to drain quickly, and collapsed, but at the moment when his eyes finally closed, he saw more than a dozen ghostly figures in the rain and mist. , all of them were sharp in armor and agile, and rushed straight into the hut!

   "Be quicker with your hands and feet! Go to two people and unbolt the gate! Open the gate of the village! Raise the fire and signal!"

  Gong Jun ordered in a low voice, pulled out the short straight blade, and wiped the blood from the short straight blade on Captain Sun's body.

Amidst the muffled groans that sounded in the hut, some long and short howls finally subsided, and one person got out of the hut, came to Gong Jun, and wiped the **** water on the short blade. Shaking it off, he smiled and reported: "Marquis Jun... Hehe, it's too easy, they're all a bunch of idiots... It's all over inside... By the way, this short blade is really good, it goes in and out very smoothly, but it's a bit short ...It would be nice to be thicker and longer..."

Gong Jun snorted, and said, "You know what! Why don't you take the ring head knife if you like big ones? You bastard, in a place like this, you can't use a spear or a big knife at all! Forged short blades are the most suitable! Go back, check again, and make an extra cut if you have the breath!"

  The man responded, chuckled, and went back into the hut.

   Accompanied by his own guards, Li Guan looked at the murderous Gong Jun. Although he was wearing a big cloak, Li Guan still felt a little chilly. The people in front of him were the real fighters on the battlefield!

  It's very natural to be relaxed and freehand. To them, killing people is not much worse than killing a chicken or a sheep!

  The defensive army on the Tangluo Road in Hanzhong was so loose and broken, somewhat beyond Li Guan's expectations. After all, this is an important passage to enter Hanzhong, and it should look good at least, but everything in front of me is unexpectedly easy.

   This wave of manpower is almost like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, dying with their hands tied...

I don't know what was in his mind, maybe it was worry about Li Guan's future fate, maybe it was timidity towards the group of murderous gods in front of him, or for some other reason, the guard beside Li Guan said in a low voice: "... Lang Jun, there are still two military strongholds to come...It may not be so smooth...Although Hanzhong is unprepared, but Mr. Lang looks at this mountain road, even if the light army comes, it will be difficult, how can we transport food and grass? ...you have to be careful..."

  Li Guan was silent for a moment, but he only sighed slightly, and said: "Don't mention this again, since we have come here, there is no reason to give up halfway..."

"Your Majesty," the guard continued in a low voice, "A certain army in the western conquest did not have any equipment for attacking the city... Although these are all elites, it is natural to be able to sweep these rough outlying military strongholds with ease, but if you want to attack the city …this…"

"...You are right..." Li Guan said in a low voice, "...but since you can see it, General Zhengxi is naturally prepared...Maybe Zhengxi has already made arrangements...so don't bring up this matter again...um , look at the flames on the mountain road, it should be that General Zhengxi is about to come up, and he will come forward to welcome..."

  ………………

  Mountain roads are inherently difficult, especially at night.

  If Gong Jun hadn’t left a lot of marks along the way, remind the people behind to pay attention, maybe this torch can’t reach it, and he might step on the ground and fall into the mountain stream. At the corner of the mountain rock, along the rugged mountain road, it is almost like one person is holding the other person's belt, moving step by step.

   Fei Qian stood on a rock by the side of the mountain road, looking at the situation in front of him, frowning a little.

   This is the first military village!

  There are two more to come!

  And from here, it is considered to have entered the most difficult part of the Tangluo Road, the so-called Tianpan Road with eighty-four bends!

  Li Ru was standing beside Fei Qian, maybe because of the cold night, he coughed from time to time.

"Wenyou, I seem to have forgotten to calculate something..." Fei Qian looked at the mountain road in front of him with a little embarrassment, frowned and said, "...the amount of dry food prepared in Hanzhong can be supported, but the grain and grass in Hanzhong ...If this is transshipped, such a mountain road..."

When he decided to go south to Hanzhong, Feiqian brought almost all the dry food stored in Pingyang, so as to ensure that he would not need to carry too much food and grass when taking the winding road, which would increase the difficulty of traveling and delay the journey, but the problem is The dry food in Pingyang in Feiqian is exquisite compressed noodles, but the food in Hanzhong is not!

  Even if Fei Qian wants to reprocess these grains and grasses in Hanzhong, how can he successfully transform the grains and grasses into compressed dough cakes without Huang’s workshop’s day and night water mill and a large number of equipment?

   But there is no way to change the shape. Such bags of grain and grass are transported from Hanzhong, not to mention the space occupied. The transportation cost of this mountain road alone is many times higher than that of flat land!

  If you really take this Tangluo Road, it will be considered good if you can transport grain and grass from ten pavilions to one pavilion!

   And such a huge consumption of food and grass, the pay is out of proportion to what you get, how can you provide more food and grass to the refugees in Guanzhong?

Li Ru's eyes flickered for a moment, and he said, "You don't need to worry about it, General... The way to transport grain, you Ruo's intention is mostly to take the praise slope... But there is another way, although the distance is longer, but it is better than the praise slope. , convenient for the moment, can solve immediate worries..."

   "Huh? Better than Baoxie?" Fei Qian asked with some doubts.

"Baoxie Road goes up against Baoshui and goes down along the slope. The mountain road in the middle is transported by manpower. It goes back and forth continuously, which is enough to transport grain to Guanzhong... However, the plank road of Baoshui burned down, and it will take time to repair it..." Li Ru He said, "If you don't go to Qishan, you can take a detour to Longxi. Although it is far away, it will be three points more convenient if you don't have to go over the mountains..."

   "Qi Shan?" Fei Qian pinched the beard on his chin.

  Although this place name is very familiar, is it really good to go to Qishan?

   This circle is not a little bit...

   "To the west of Hanzhong is Mianyang, and to the west of Mianyang is Yangping Pass..." Li Ru explained with a confident smile, "The southwest of Yangping is Jinniu Road, and the northwest is Qishan Road..."

"The way of Mount Qi, the mountains are gentle, and there are roads in the mountains, which are convenient for transporting grain and grass. There are also Jushui, Donghe, Xihe, Baihe, Donggou, etc., which can be transported by boat. If you go northwest, there is a land in a hundred miles. The hug of the mountain, the intersection of three rivers, can be a relay..."

"During the Xiping period, Yu Shengqing, the prefect of Wudu, dredged the water conservancy and opened the Qingni River. As a result, the salt and rice were abundant here, ten times as much as before... At this time, it was the rainy season, and the river was high and deep, so it was suitable for boating, and you could reach Xiabiandao directly. !" Li Ru continued, "However, if it is autumn and winter, when the mountains are high and the water is dry, you will not be able to sail..."

   "Discrimination?" Fei Qian couldn't help repeating.

"That's right, you can take Weishui River to Chencang in the east, and Tianshui in the north..." Li Ru nodded and said, "When you go to the Xiabian Road, you have already left the mountains, and the road is smooth...Xiabian Dao is about 150 miles to the northwest. , is Jianwei, there are mountains on both sides of this place, the terrain is flat, the land is fertile, and there are many wealthy households..."

   "Huh?" Fei Qian became more and more confused the more he listened, why did he feel like he was going further and further away, so when can he turn back to Guanzhong?

Li Ru seemed to see Fei Qian's doubts, and said with a smile: "The grain in Hanzhong can be transported here... Someone has sent someone to Jianwei to discuss with the local big family in the name of a general, and exchange grain for grain. It shouldn't be difficult...so we can first respond to the urgent situation in Guanzhong..."

   "I see..." Fei Qian suddenly realized.

Xun Chen’s plan is really good, take Baoshui and Xishui, and then use people to move in the middle, but after all, the plank road of Baoshui was burned, so there must be a delay in the initial stage, but after Li Ru’s supplement, the whole strategy The structure is perfected immediately.

From Hanzhong to Jianwei, and then from Jianwei to Longyou and back to Guanzhong, bypassing Qishan Mountain, it seems that it is a long journey, but in fact, it is equivalent to finding a large household in Jianwei to borrow grain and grass first, so on the whole , It is more convenient and faster than taking the praise ramp in the early days!

  The key is to shorten the vacuum period for Hanzhong to provide food and grass to the refugees in Guanzhong, which is more conducive to Fiqian's resettlement in Guanzhong and subsequent population arrangements...

   "Wenyou really has a meticulous plan!" Fei Qian thought about it for a while, and felt that Li Ru's arrangement was really good, so he praised, "By the way, I don't know who Wenyou sent to Jianwei?"

   "My surname is Jiang, my name is Jiong, and my style name is Zhongyi. I am from Tianshui... I can be considered a general..." Li Ru said.

   "Jiang Jiong, Jiang Zhongyi?" Fei Qian couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

   This name seems very familiar...

   Well, the issue of grain transportation is almost over...

   The author Jun also admired himself very much. He actually set up a problem for himself, and then tried to find a way to get it back...

   As for whether there are any mistakes...

   Don’t care, even if it exists, it’s just as invisible...

   It can be said that after taking Hanzhong and having food and grass, it is basically about to enter the fast lane...

   Well, coming soon...

  (end of this chapter)